Vertical alignment on last page of section/chapter

[Terri N]

My customer wants every page as full as possible in his book. After hunting
around I discovered Vertical Alignment - Justified and thought I'd solved the
problem. The snag is that the last page of the chapter/section is also
vertically justified, with some pretty strange results depending on how full
the page is. Is there a way to tell Word not to vertically justify the last
page of a section?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The pages will be full as possible if you leave the vertical alignment set
at Top and avoid using paragraphs that are formatted to have a Page break
before them, or Keep with next or Keep lines together and probably also
uncheck the Widow/Orphan control box as well so that all of the boxes are
unchecked in the Pagination section of the Line and Page Breaks tab of the
Format Paragraph dialog.
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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For more on what Doug is talking about (with screen shots), see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BottomLine.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Jay Freedman]

For more discussion of the factors involved, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BottomLine.htm.

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[Stefan Blom]

Unfortunately, no. Word's Vertical Alignment feature is far from flawless.
I'd always choose "Top" for Vertical Alignment.

 

[Terri N]

Thank you, this was an excellent article on this topic...I think I'm going to
make my customer read it!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It never hurts to make clients aware of the limitations of the software
they're requiring you to use!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org